Dr. Wendy Zierler serves as Sigmund Falk Professor of Feminist Studies and Modern Jewish Literature. Prior to joining HUC-JIR, she was a Research Fellow in the English Department of Hong Kong University, where she lived for five and a half years while teaching at the University.

Selected Publications and Edited Works

Midrash and Movies: Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation (SUNY, 2017), 2017 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience

“On Account of the Cushite Woman that Moses Took: Race and Gender in Modern Hebrew Poems about Numbers 12,” Nashim 17 (Spring 2010).

“The Making and Remaking of American Jewish Literature,” Shofar (Spring 2009).

“The Letters of Hava Shapiro to Reuven Brainin,” Nashim 16 (2008).

“Staring at the Bookcase: Daughters, Knowledge, and the Fiction of Devorah Baron,” in Sheila Jelen and Shachar Pinsker [Eds.], Hebrew, Gender and Modernity: Critical Responses to Dvora Baron’s Fiction, University of Maryland Press, 2007.

My Holocaust Is(n’t) Your Holocaust: “Facing” the Holocaust in The Pawnbroker, Higher Ground and The Nature of Blood, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (the journal of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oxford University Press) 18: 1 (Spring, 2004).

“The Rabbi’s Daughter in and out of the Kitchen,” Nashim 5 (2002).

“Chariot(ess) of Fire: Yocheved Bat-Miriam’s Female Personifications of the Land of Israel,” Prooftexts 20 (2000).

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